Development, plasticity and evolution of butterfly eyespot patterns
Development, plasticity and evolution of butterfly eyespot patterns
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DOI：
10.1038/384236a0
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发表时间：
1996-11-21
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影响因子：
64.8
通讯作者：
Carroll, SB
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作者：
Brakefield, PM;Gates, J;Carroll, SB
研究了蝴蝶眼斑图案的形成、可塑性和多样性的发育和遗传基础。眼点模式突变、调节基因表达和眼点发育组织者的移植表明，眼点的位置、数量、大小和颜色是在一个与其他翅膀模式元件和身体结构的调节基本不耦合的发育途径中逐步确定的。物种比较和选择实验表明，眼斑模式的进化可以通过这一途径的不同阶段的调节而快速发生，并且只需要调节基因的单个或很少的变化。
The developmental and genetic bases for the formation, plasticity and diversity of eyespot patterns in butterflies are examined. Eyespot pattern mutants, regulatory gene expression, and transplants of the eyespot developmental organizer demonstrate that eyespot position, number, size and colour are determined progressively in a developmental pathway largely uncoupled from those regulating other wing-pattern elements and body structures. Species comparisons and selection experiments suggest that the evolution of eyespot patterns can occur rapidly through modulation of different stages of this pathway, and requires only single, of very few, changes in regulatory genes.